- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:55:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > Can you ever evict past the current playback position? If so, what > > happens when you reach that point during playback? > > For non-seekable resources we try very hard to not evict anything, > especially content after the current playback position, but in extreme > cases --- e.g., we need to free up space to allow other media elements > to make progress at all --- we will do that. If you reach the eviction > point, we'll have to reread the entire resource from the beginning to > get to the needed data. Interesting, thanks. In the model I had in mind when originally speccing this, I would have considered the above as seekable (albeit very slowly). I can understand marking it as not seekable, though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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